Ani Difranco - J Lyrics
Can't sit on my porch and smoke a j,and remember how peaceful life can be. But all night long are a bunch of pusherssellin' drugs right there on my tv.Drugs that whether or not I buyare gonna end up in my water supplyalong with who knows what elsewho knows when.Just gotta take a deep breath and drink it in.Round here if there's one thing people knowit's that government ain't there for you it's all for show.And I'm tryin' to tell 'em, it don't have to be so! But I can understand that their confidence is low.Cuz' round here people so high they can seeover the tops of the tall pine trees, down to the mouth of the Mississippi.Blood ignited in a blighted sky,blood in the water, like we all could dieblood on the reeds glistening in the sunblood on our hands, each and every one.Here in the calm before the wars, when the earth shrugs us off like dinosaurs.Here in the sunset days of yore, the first signs washing ashore.Goddess come and lift ushere in deepest Louisiane.In the gut where hunches come froma message goes out loud as it can.And you'd a thought we'd a come more far somehowsince the changing of the guard and all.I mean, dude could be FDR right now,and instead he's just shifting his weight.And the disappointment is the knockout blowfilmed in torturous slow-mo.Oh hope please come where I can seedon't let the poison get the best of me.Goddess come and lift ushere in deepest Louisiane.In the gut where hunches come froma message goes out loud as it can.Truth is for tellingtruth is foretold.Truth is for those with the guts to behold.We got vampires down here in Louisianewe need voodoo dolls, we need talisman.We need wooden stakes and shards of lightwe need harbingers riding through the night.We need fountain pens, we need whale harpoons to overthrow the oil tycoons.Cuz' there's no fish in the water, no birds in the sky,no life in the soil, no end to the lie, no time like the presentand it is passing us by...but it's never to late, never too late to tryCuz' if we all had to change, we all just would.And we would move closer, and that would be good.And we would buy local and we would buy lessand we'd realize that wasn't our happiness.No that wasn't our happiness (x3)No that wasn't.Goddess come and lift ushere in deepest Lousiane. (x3)In the gut where hunches come froma message goes out loud as it can.
